From: kym@kymhorsell.com   
      
   Jimmy Wilhelmssohn  wrote:   
   > ...short stature, as in 3' or 4' tall, no apparent sex organs, wimpy arms   
   and legs, big heads with no hair, slits for mouths and two little holes for   
   noses.....   
      
   Doesn't sound typical.   
      
   With only about 5% of UFO reports being accurate or even   
   meaningful, we probably need to expect reports of "contacts" are   
   about as reliable.   
      
   Webb & Bloecher have cataloged reports of contact with   
   "unusual humanoids" from the 19th cent to the late 1970s.   
      
   Suspiciously the average height reported comes in at 5.8 ft.   
   (The last decade from the catalog give:   
   Height	Number	   
   3-4 ft	  3	   
   4-5 ft	  2	   
   5-6 ft	  5	   
   6-7 ft	  5	   
   7-8 ft	  5	   
   8-10 ft	  3	   
   ).   
      
   It seems people can not imagine "aliens" that look much different from   
   themselves.   
      
   Like Star Trek! :)   
      
   We might suspect anying too far outside narrow human-like parameters is   
   essentially "invisible".   
      
   In the 19th cent people used to see "air ships" rather than disks or triangles.   
   Typically, a newspaper report would say someone heard voices from the sky,   
   looked up and there was an airship.   
      
   An airship would sometimes supposedly stop over someone's home, the crew   
   would come down and borrow a pail of water or something, and then fly off.   
   Most of these crew were described as pretty much 100% human.   
      
   Quite a few reports, even those published in newspapers, came from young   
   children.  Interestingly, children reported "aliens" that are significantly   
   shorter than the ~6 ft average in the table above. IOW. kids see aliens that   
   are about the same height as themselves.   
      
   Aliens. Or maybe something else is going on. :)   
      
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